Canuxploitation

English

Etymology

From Canuck +‎ -sploitation.

Noun

Canuxploitation (uncountable)

1. (film) A genre of low-budget films produced in Canada, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.
   • 2002, “Introduction: What Is Canadian Cinema?”, in Eugene P. Walz, editor, Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films, Rodopi, →ISBN, page xvii:

     Canuxploitation films form a constant undercurrent in both English Canada and Quebec, swelling at certain points to near-tidal proportions.

   • 2011, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company (201), →ISBN, page 113:

     As a classic example of 1970s B-grade “Canuxploitation,” Death Weekend has retrospectively developed a cult audience beyond the lackluster response it garnered upon its initial release.

   • 2012, David Lawrence Pike, Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 185:

     How can we account for the career of quintessentially Canadian directors such as William Fruet and Paul Lynch, whose extensive filmographies include both realist classics such as Fruet's gruelling depiction of Albertan patriarchy, Wedding in White (1972), and Lynch's loser drama of an aging country-music singer on the road in small-town Ontario, The Hard Part Begins (1973), and Canuxploitation horror such as Fruet's Death Weekend (1976), Spasms (1983), Killer Party (1986), and Blue Monkey (1987), […]